Quotes by Peter Coyote

About Peter Coyote:

Peter Coyote is an American actor, author, director, screenwriter and narrator of films, theatre, television and audiobooks. His voice work includes narrating the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics and Apple's iPad Retina Display campaign. He has also served as on-camera co-host of the 2000 Oscar telecasts. His speaking voice helped him win an Emmy Award in 1992 for narration of "The Meiji Revolution" episode of the PBS series The Pacific Century. He has often been compared with actor Henry Fonda.
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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

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I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

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You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

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Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

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Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

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Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

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My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

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Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

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I've always been a writer.

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Acting is the way I make my living.

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The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

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Writing is something I can do by myself.

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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

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In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicat...

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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

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When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

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Author Bio

  • NamePeter Coyote
  • DescriptionAmerican actor and director
  • BornOctober 10, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Television Actor
  • AwardsEmmy Award